Sisu
Sisu is a clean energy company providing “Made in the USA” emissions-control systems for toxic air pollutants, noise-abatement equipment, heat recovery steam generators, and power modules.
Power Ten is a private investment platform. We provide flexible growth-oriented capital solutions to founders and owner-operators across a range of industries.
Powering the American industrial renaissance
Power Ten invests across the United States of America.
About
Power Ten partners directly with founders and management teams. We are active throughout the investment lifecycle, working closely with operators on strategic, financial, and operational initiatives.
Our approach emphasizes direct involvement and long-term value creation.
Portfolio
Helical Energy
Helical designs waste-heat recovery systems which increase power plant efficiency and power production with no incremental toxic emissions.
Team
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Ted is the Founder of Hastings Equity Partners. Prior to starting Hastings in 2004, Ted helped start Boston Light Software in 1998, which was sold to Intuit in 1999. He helped grow the organization from 4 to 80 people, grow revenues to $5 million in three years, make 2 acquisitions of add-on service providers and negotiate 15 strategic partnerships. Prior to that, Ted ran the QuickBooks business at Intuit. During his tenure, operating margins tripled and revenues grew from $50 to $100 million.
Ted was an Olympic Bronze medalist at the 1988 Olympics and a Gold medalist at the 1987 World Rowing Championships, and was inducted to US Rowing Hall of Fame in 1991. He is the Founder and President of Caring from a Distance, a national, non-profit focused on long distance caregivers, and is a Trustee of the National Rowing Foundation.
Ted received a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Northwestern University.
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Prior to Power Ten Capital, Brett spent nearly a decade investing in and acquiring high-growth technology companies as both a venture capitalist and M&A advisor.
He was previously a Vice President at Progress Ventures where he led investments in early-stage technology companies and provided board-level support to portfolio founders with strategy, operations, and growth. Most recently, Brett joined the founding team at Troon Digital, the newly launched consumer arm of the world's largest golf course management company. There, he helped design and launch Access Rewards, the largest loyalty program in golf.
Brett began his career at KPMG in its Deal Advisory practice, and is a CPA. He holds an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management and a BS in Accounting from Bentley University where he was a captain of the varsity golf team.
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Dan has nearly a decade of experience structuring, executing, and managing risk across bespoke structured credit and asset-based investing and lending.
Prior to founding Power Ten Capital, he was a Vice President at Barclays in the firm’s Global Credit Financing & Solutions business, where he focused on opportunistic investments across asset-based finance, contract monetization, private credit lender finance, and hedge fund financing.
Dan began his career at UBS in its Structured Finance Group, where he traded and financed a broad range of corporate and securitized fixed income assets. He holds a B.A. in Economics from New York University and is based in New York City.
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Kevin has spent nearly a decade investing in, advising, and structuring transactions for growth-stage businesses across multiple sectors and asset classes.
Prior to Power Ten Capital, he worked on private equity secondaries investments at 50 South Capital, Northern Trust's alternative investments business, where he focused on both GP-led continuation vehicles and LP-led secondaries. Prior to that, he invested in growth stage business at Great Hill Partners, where he helped source, execute and manage the firm's investments in the healthcare sector.
He began his career in the technology M&A group at Houlihan Lokey. He holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Bruce is an Associate at Power Ten Capital. He was previously a Consultant at Imperium Global, where he ran executive searches across the U.S. construction and manufacturing industries and led a team of consultants.
Before business, he rowed full-time for Leander Club and the Great Britain Rowing Team development squad, winning gold at the 2022 U23 World Championships in a World Best Time and the 2024 Henley Royal Regatta Visitors' Challenge Cup.
He holds an M.S. in Environmental Consultancy and a B.S. in Chemistry from Newcastle University.
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John Hare is a senior advisor to Power Ten Capital. He brings expertise and insight from a long and successful career in noise abatement, air pollution control, heat recovery steam generation, fabrication, heat transfer, and field services. Throughout his career, he has led teams delivering quality products and services to utilities, midstream operators, and companies in the petrochemical, refining, mining, and power industries. John is a co-founder and retired CEO and president of Sisu Energy & Environmental. He remains on the company’s board and actively advises its management. Prior to Sisu, John led Express Integrated Technologies.
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